“Soul” is centered on the life narrative of Joe Gardner, an extraordinarily talented jazz musician and experienced middle school music teacher. However, although Joe has committed himself to the classroom, Joe passionately and continually dreams about playing jazz music professionally full-time.

One day, Joe meets a famous jazz musician who invited him to play for her that evening. Joe’s uncontrollable excitement distracted him while walking, which ultimately caused him to fall inside a utility hole of a sewer drain, where he landed lost and bewildered in an unknown place called the Great Beyond.

We sometimes look at our world and assess all the things happening today and say, “This is NOT the world I have known! Similarly, the Old Testament prophet Daniel was transported into a foreign and ungodly place where everything was wrong. His example can help us on to live faithfully to God in a seemingly unfamiliar world.”

Like Joe, we sometimes look at our world and assess all the things happening today and say, “This is NOT the world I have known! It seems that we too have landed in the Great Beyond and we recognize there is something vastly wrong here. Similarly, the Old Testament prophet Daniel was transported into a foreign and ungodly place where everything was wrong. His example can help us on to live faithfully to God in a seemingly unfamiliar world.